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FormalOrganization

An Organization which is recognized in the world at large, in particular in legal jurisdictions, with associated rights and responsibilities. Examples include a Corporation, Charity, Government or Church. Note that this is a super class of gr:BusinessEntity and it is recommended to use the GoodRelations vocabulary to denote Business classifications such as DUNS or NAICS.

Diagram

cluster_associated foaf_Organization foaf:Organization Organization Organization FormalOrganization FormalOrganization FormalOrganization->foaf_Organization FormalOrganization->Organization OrganizationalUnit OrganizationalUnit FormalOrganization->OrganizationalUnit hasUnit Site Site FormalOrganization->Site hasRegisteredSite

FormalOrganization Diagram

Specializations of FormalOrganization

Class Description
Business Entity1

Formalization for FormalOrganization

Property Constraint
hasRegisteredSite only Site
hasUnit only OrganizationalUnit
subClassOf Organization
subClassOf foaf:Organization

  1. Specialization asserted by this ontology via alignment; the class is defined in an external ontology and is not declared as a specialization of this class there. ↩